Bush Settles on Mukasey to Replace Gonzales

WAPOST ^ | Sunday, September 16, 2007; 5:02 PM | Michael Abramowitz and Dan Eggen

[paltz]

President Bush has settled on retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, two sources familiar with the decision said Sunday.

The appointment of Mukasey, 66, considered a law-and-order conservative and authority on national security issues, could come as early as Monday morning, the sources said.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Bush’s idea of “keeping the nation safe” includes the concept of unlimited penetration of the border by cheap labor. Really inspires confidence, doesn’t it? Bush and his NWO masers have been selling us out since day one.

[rwfromkansas]

I agree. I would have preferred Olson, but despite all the dirt people are trying to dig up on this guy here on FR, he really sounds okay. He has a conservative reputation.

SCOTUS is something to fight about. AG....not so much. As long as they are okay, that’s good enough.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

If RINO’s are gone we will have a 25% minority.

[Deo volente]

"We oppose him, we oppose his family, we oppose the president, we oppose everybody in the president's family, we oppose every single thing the president has done or will do in the future, and finally, WE OPPOSE AMERICA!!!"

[montag813]

Also Oslen simply was not going to be confirmed. Remember Bush gets to pick, not to approve

A recess appointment now gets any nominee until the end of Bush's term. So yes, at this stage, Bush gets to approve.

[Beagle8U]

Fox news just confirmed that this judge is in fact President Bush’s pick for AG.

[El Gato]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York,...

The 66-year-old New York native, who is a legal adviser to GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, ...

Mukasey has received past endorsements from Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is from Mukasey's home state. And in 2005, the liberal Alliance for Justice put Mukasey on a list of four judges who, if chosen for the Supreme Court, would show the president's commitment to nominating people who could be supported by both Democrats and Republicans.

That's it. New York City, Giuliani, Schumer, Freaking Schumer for Pete's sake.

There goes the RKBA for the rest of Bush's term.

Git a Rope.

[El Gato]

The possibility that Bush would nominate Mukasey, however, inflamed some supporters on the GOP's right flank,

We aren't "on the flank", we are the right flank, and the hard core (and hard corps too!) of the GOP's support.

[El Gato]

I think just take a breath and see what this guy is made of when he speaks.

I think I'd rather look at his record.

Liberals and RINOs often speak with forked tongue.

[George W. Bush]

Excellent pick. Easy confirmation, has a strong anti-terror record, a creative and intellectual jurist.

[Tall_Texan]

It really doesn’t matter. When the Dems finally end their filibuster, there will be only three months left in Bush’s term.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

During and after Gulf War I, Bush 41 quietly slipped us to the brink of NAFTA, and even committed our nation to fast-track legislation AFTER he lost the 92 election (yeh, klinton signed it, but the issue was forced by Bush 41). It was gonna stop illegal border-hopping, remember?

Now his kid tries his damndest to complete the job while we are continually distracted from it with - well, you know.

Compromised - Bush, Clinton, Bush, and the CIA/CFR.
(that’d be a catchy book title, eh?)

[boop]

"Excellent pick. Easy confirmation, has a strong anti-terror record, a creative and intellectual jurist."

I don't know enough to be opposed to this guy, but what would be sweet is if this guy is all "approved" by the dems and then he goes full bore investigating the dem's fundraising scandals. No matter what the dems will turn on the AG like they did with Petraeus after they "approved" him.

[ER Doc]

He’s pointing out what a “staunch conservative” Giuliani really is. Rudy talks a good game on terror, but as a social conservative? Not so much...

[El Gato]

Olson would never get through .. for one thing: because he was one of Bush’s lead attorneys in the 2000 election chad spectacle.

But also lost his wife to the terrorists on 9-11. More properly *we* lost his wife to the terrorists on 9-11.

I for one would feel a lot better with him as AG than almost anyone else I can think of.

Come to that, if he was nominated and the position went unfilled, with him as "acting" while the Dems obstructed, that would not be such a "Bad Thing" either.

[ER Doc]

has a strong anti-terror record,

You do know that this is the guy who ruled against the Bush Administration and said Jose Padilla had the right to an attorney, and that Padilla's attorney had the right to see the secret evidence against him, right?

[El Gato]

Sincerely, Charles E. Schumer United States Senator

The man, and I use the term loosely, would not know sincere if it bit him in the butt.

[STARWISE]

WHOEVER mentioned folding up any tents??

That’s the last thing Pres. Bush can be accused of.

Gee, what a shame you’re not president .. ‘cause you could do everything so perfectly, as well as control all domestic and foreign affairs.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

the most liberal Republican presidential candidate throughout all history

I think you may be mistaken. New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, who ran for election against Grant in 1872 as the candidate of the Liberal Republican party (a splinter of the GOP), with the Democrat endorsement, after being a founder of the Republicans, was probably more liberal.

[ExSES]

I was hoping for Ted Olsen.

While I would agree..., Ted has already served as Solicitor General and (as a result of 9/11) MORE THAN PAID HIS DUES!

At this point in an administration, there is little point in anyone "joining" (even for resume's sake.....)!